Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1924 — Page 4

EDITOR I A L

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Red Hat Publicity a Good Advertisement, Says "Life"

ELAN'S PROGRAM FOR 1924 ' 1. Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. 2. Back to the Constitution. 8. Knforrement of the Eighteenth Amendment so long as It Is a part of the Constitution. 4. Enforcement of present Immigration laws and enactment f more stringent laws on immigration.

America Serves Notice Arising in the midst of the tumult raised by those inter sts fighting

restrictive immigration, America has, through Congress, served notice on the rest of the world that she is no longer to be used as a dumping ground for the unfit of other nations. In the passage of the Immigration bill, by an overwhelming majority, the American people have won a victory of great magnitude; not only will the immigration bill, when It becomes a law, shut out that great tide of humanity that had long ago "put out the fires beneath the melting pot," but has shown that foreign societies, sinister influences and wire pulling by foreign political systems can not override the wishes of the American people when they co-ordinate. In the last several months the American people, those of course who wish to retain American institutions, American ideals and American standards, have fought shoulder to shoulder for restrictive immigration. Against them were arrayed powerful lobbies, foreign societies and an old system that has been trained for centuries in political craftiness, llcspite all this, first the House and then the Senate voted overwhelm

ingly for the immigration bill and thereby reflected the sentiment of the American people as a whole. Chief among the co-ordinated bodies backing the Johnson bill, was she Klan. This does not mean, however, that the passage of the bill was jieroly a Klan victory. The whole is an American victory. While the Ulunsmen of America may take just pride in the part played by them, and I lie one-sided vote again points to the mighty influence for the good of America which the Klan wields, every true American, whether Klansman or non-Klansman, will benefit greatly. While possibly remote, there still remains the possibility of a veto bv

President Coolidge. It seems impossiblp that Mr. Coolidge could veto the bill in the face of the vote, a vote that mirrors the desire of the American people, and shouhTTie do so it would come as a shock. Should the bill be vetoed, however, and fail for want of a vote that would send it over the president's head (which would mean only the name vote that has already been made) a moral victory, would yet have teen gained, although a law as strict as the bill just passed would have been delayed. Congress has shown that it will do the will of the American people; it has been definitely shown that Congress has listened to Americans rather than to aliens and foreign influences. The moral victory could in no way be wiped out. The proof that Americans are wirtriiiR in co-operation for the betterment of America has been given to the world. The Fiery Cross had predicted the passage of the immigration bill, but

was not so optimistic as to believe that it would be passed by a vote of 322 to 71 in the House and 62 to 6 in the Senate. When one reviews the many victories of Klansmen, however, literally from Maine to California, it is not surprising that that co-ordination of purpose and that mighty influence for good should be reflected in Congress, composed as it is of citizens from all parts of America who are in touch with the desires of their constituents. The Fiery Cross was the first in the field to advocate and demand restrictive immigration, such as the bill as passed provides. One by one fclher publications took up the fight; leading magazines began to carry articles puting before the people the perils of lax immigration, and influential dailies began to take up the cry. To those publications that followed In the footsteps of The Fiery Cross much of the credit for this great American victory should be given. Klansmen may rightfully take pride in blazing the path that has led to a restrictive immigration bill being passed in Congress.

NEW YORK, April 19. The recent newspaper publicity put out by the Catholic churcn concerning the red hats given to two men born on this side of the water has evidently not been received with as much enthusiasm as some of the subsidized presses would lead the public to believe, and editorials in various periodicals have called this to the attention of their readers in no uncertain terms. The publication "Life" of New York also has an editorial in its most recent edition, pertaining to the subject, and is herewith printed in part as follows: "The two new cardinals have got

their red hats and will be coming home again. The ceremony of in

vestiture was stately and splendid and very completely reported in the American press. So now there are two more American-born 'princes of the church,' as to whom and their advancement the World observed that 'there is a strong sense of national pride which extends to the non-Catholic population.' 'And the occasion itself,' it said, 'enthralled American attention because we are so plain and new, and the investiture of a cardinal at Rome is so ornate and old.' "Well, perhaps so. But the truth

is that we are no newer than the Italians. We are transplanted Europeans, and they are Europeans

that stayed at home, and that is tne difference. Cardinals are a product, not of Galilee, but of Europe. The American idea found voice in the words of the Pilgrim father whose band, he said, had come to found 'a state without a king and a church without a bishop.' And as for our national pride in having red hats come to Americans, the World may feel it, but for our part we have not been stirred by any deep emotion of that nature, but have been moved rather by a sense of entertainment handsomely offered and of advertisement achieved. The control of the Roman Catholic church will continue to be in Italians.

American cardinals will be ap-

Sparks from the Fiery Gross

By JOHN EIGHT POINT "Th noblest motive is The public good.

-VIRGIL

There is no Klannishnes3 in a doleful whine. The real Klansman says little and does much. Praise for Lew Shank he kills his enemies like Samson. The jawbone of an ass is a great weapon. A Klansman should remember that a good many people will set their

clocks according to his watch. Hope Is the Klan's half-brother to action, and action is the father of happiness. The man who makes a business of breaking law will soon find himself breaking law for a business. - - Let your spirit do its duty.

Klansman, yours the living creed.

Worship at the feet of beauty, Serve your country in her need Let no alien power advise you.

Hold the faith your fathers knew,

Then no foe will e'er surprise you, In this battle for the true.

No man should profess the Klan

unless he is willing to do the loyal

deeds of the Klan. One large part of the devil's daily business is to make right people think Klansmen are wrong people. No one can tell how much a Klansman is doing for his ecJuntry, judging merely by the size of his salary check. An American citizen should strive so to, live that he will not want to lick the editor for putting his name in the paper. The Klacnish life has nothing to fear from editors who are not bought by alien or papal

pointed from time to time, for such ; money.

appointments are a natural conse

Stone Is Called to Account for His Anti-Klan Chatter

quence or the tact tnai mis is a large country with a good many active people in it, of whom maybe twenty million are Catholics, and prosperous. Material power and economic importance count of course and inevitably in the selection of American Catholics to be cardinals. So far as American importance goes, it does mean something, but we

Americans are rather cloyed with importance, and desire not so much to be assured of it, as to see some way by which it can be made more serviceable to mankind."

In the Name of Morale

And Why the Klan? Chicago's underworld recently staged a funeral, one of the most elaborate funerals in Chicago's history, for one of their fallen "gunmen," who was shot in a pistol duel with half a dozen detectives, as the aftermath of a recent election in Cicero.' The little house where the body lay became a tomb of Easter flowers as truckload after truckload of roses and lillies, tributes of "the gang," arrived. It was estimated that the floral tributes which overflowed the house and were stacked In towering heaps on the

lawn and walks, cost more than $20,000. For two blocks in each direction from the cottage where the dead man lay, his friends stood In line, while

those unable to gain access to the Btreets lined neighboring roofs and windows. In the funeral cortege were more than 200 limousines, some of them carrying policemen and detectives who had clashed with the gunman and his gang many times in the past. And some people wonder why the Klan? When such gangs get the upper hand where law and order can not control, it's a mighty good thing to have a Klan to step in and take charge.

Rome Moves on Venezuela

The Venezuelan government, working in accord with the newly-appointed papal nuncio, has agreed to the re-establishment of the missions of the Roman Catholic church along the Orinoco river, says a correspondent at Caracas, Venezuela, to the Christian Science Monitor. Under

the terms of the arrangement, the government will provide most of the money needed, and the church will send out into these regions Franciscan friars to establish centers of religion and agriculture on virtually the same lines as those which were set up through the southwest of the United States, and, Indeed, in these very regions of the Orinoco when Spain first came here 400 years ago. This region of the Orinoco basin specifically that south and east of the river from Its mouth inland, a territory of many thousand square miles, la virtually Inaccessible to white men, and the Indians resist all ordi

nary penetration. The plan to re

establish the missions, abolished

nearly a century ago, following the Independence from Spain, is in part as acknowledgment of failure to

"civilize" these Indians by other means, nnd Is one of the steps in the

lout plan of reconciliation which

Rome is carrying on here with the Venezuelans. The Indians of this Jungle region have not been civilized, or even brought under the military control of Venezuela, largely because it has not seemed worth the cost. Geologists and engineers have penetrated here, prospecting for gold and for diamonds, but the government has not attempted to extend Its rule,

holding that when the explorers

found minerals would be time enough

to pacify the region. Pending this the Indians are to be turned over to thefriars.

The last phase of the new arrangement, the approach of the church to the Venezuelan government, is extremely interesting. The president of Venezuela recently has received a

high decoration of the church, and the new nuncio, Mgr. Feline Cortesi, a young Italian, has received ambassadorial rank, making him the dean of the diplomatic corps of this little capital. Aside from the merely formal phase of the work of the nuncio and aaide from the reopening of the "mlsiones," may well be added the fact that there recently has been opened, here in Caracas, the first Jesnit college which has been allowed In the country since the expulsion of the order in Spanish times.

The forced retirement from the Chicago postoffice of Edward C. Hooker, assistant superintendent of registry, reveals a spirit in the department which can hardly be conducive to good service. Mr. Hooker has been in the postal service .continuously for forty-five years. He was a conscientious employe, proud of his record, and taking pride In his work. That work, according to the testimony of various successful Chicago business men whom he had

served, attested by Postmaster Lueder himself, was efficiently performed. Yet because Mr. Hooker had the temerity to write a letter of mild but constructive criticism, which was published in the Chicago Tribune's Voice of the People column, he was summarily placed on furlough and

ordered to apply for his pension. To

be sure, the postmaster explains that there were other reasons for the action, but it Is clear that the letter involved was the immediate reason. We can appreciate that discipline

must be maintained in such an organization as the postoffice, but the dismissal of a man at the age of 68, only two year3 before his automatic

retirement would have come about, because of certain mild criticism of the department, seems to be carrying discipline to the point of oppression. Even if there were offense, the punishment Is out of all proportion to it. And, after all, who is better fitted to comment on or criticise the postal service than a man of conscientious character who has de

voted forty-five years to that service?

Probably no one Jn the depart

ment will maintain that it is per

feet. Criticism and suggestion for its improvement are proper and necessary. To penalize such action Is likely to lower the morale of the whole service. The restoration of Mr. Hooker to his position for the

two remaining years of service open to him under civil service rules would be a graceful act on the part of the department which would raise it in the estimation of the public, and strengthen the confidence and loyalty of its best and most experienced workers.

Klansmen never knock. They know that men are like tnofors when they knock they lose power. The National Hibernian advocates "vigorous action" toward the Ku Klux Klan. "Sooner or later there will be an armed conflict," declares this peacefully (?) inclined journal. "Passive resistance is not a Hibernian trait." Certainly not! And if anybody can raise more hell than Irish Catholics, let him step forth and receive a silver loving cup decorated with brickbats. We believe

with the Hibernian that "action Is

the natural nature of Irish Catholics" bad action. The doors of the Ku Klux Klan are not very hospitable toward the man who will not work. Klansmen should always "say it with smiles" flowers wilt so quickly. A Klansman is a man who does not have to prove it he lives it.

What Did Yen Del

What did you do for the Klan today?

i m asking you. brother mine.

How did you act? What did you say?

Don t answer me with a whine. Yours was the task to act the man, To live the life you were taught

At your mother's knee, bv vour

mother's plan What righteous war have you fought? i It is no new thing you are asked to do. So you need not be surprised, I'm putting the life straight up to you My facts are all emphasized. The Klan has a definite work and great You must set your life to the rule

Each daily deed is an act of Fate, In your hands are your home and school. In your hands are home and school and state. Your poweT is power o'er kings. You walk-the path that is narrow and straight, Each day of your life has wings. What did you do for the Klan today?

wnat definite deed of right? Were your hours well spent as they slipped away? Check up your treasures tonight. Check up your treasures of work and will, And set new seals on your tongue, Remember the strength that is very

still The talkative oft die young. Check up your treasures, one by one. What do the records say? What did you do for the Klan, my son? What did,you do today? And then there is the man who

says. Let go of the fiery cross and its divine symbolism; the thing is blazing with righteous power, and it may not be safe."

Warren A. Stone, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who has been attempting to spread anti-Klan propaganda wherever he has had the opportunity to get an audience, will no longer make the misstatements he has been making, if he is honest. Mr. Stone a few weeks ago spoke at the Central school auditorium, Miami, Fla., making his usual vitriolic attack on the Klan movement. The audience was more than half Klansmen, members of Klansmen's families or Klan sympathizers. Mr. Stone, Roman Catholic, the head of one of the largest and most prominent labor organizations of the nation, probably is not aware that thousands of the members of his organization are Klansmen. Is he serving these men when he is out on the public stump misrepresenting the principles that they know to be American?

His outbreak at Miami brought

lortn an open letter, printed in a

"Law Enforcement In every community there is a pressing need for better law enforcement. The officers can not succeed unless they have the backing of the citizens. The Klan creates a sentiment in favor of law enforcement and this gives the officers the very backing they need. The lawless element gets mighty restless, uneasy and shy when they learn there is a Klan in the community. They know that the Klan stands for law enforcement, and that Klansmen ar looking and listening. They immediately begin the cry 'take off the mask. It is not the mask they fear; it is the secret membership. They want to know who 'to watch, and who is watching them. No good man is afraid of the mask. "The presence of the Klan in any community has at least four good effects in this line: First, it causes the officers to be more active and

alert because they know if they fail

four-column advertisement in the ; t0 ao their duty, the Klan will seek

Miami News and Metropolis. The letter was written, signed and paid

tft ronlnr-o fham hm!. mm . .1

the people's best interest and en-

Women Invade Smoker

WHITE PLAINS, April' 19.

Shortly before the 3:30 local for

New York pulled out of the New

Haven station here two well-dressed

women dashed up to the conductor,

and, pointing to the first coach of the train, inquired If there were

seats.

"Sure, but that is the smoker,"

he replied. "That Is what we want,'

exclaimed the women as they drew gold-tipped cigarettes from silver cigarette cases and hastily ascended

the steps of the smoker.

"Can you beat It," remarked the veteran conductor as he signaled the

motorman to start.

Necklaces in London are now worn

across the shoulders In a bateau line

instead of around the throat. The strands are held In place on .the shoulders by Jeweled pins or by real lower.

The governor of New York is a Catholic; the mayor of New York is a Catholic ; the head of all New York's public schools is a Catholic. More immigrants enter New York than any other state. Pay your money and draw your own deductions birds of a feather flock to-

A Klansman has the courage to

stand alone that's why he is fit for Klannish deeds.

Klan knighthood means Klan reverence for Ture American woman

hood.

True Klannishness consists In the

giving of one's whole soul in a just

and holy cause. Pure Klannishness

according to our solemnly-worded

tenets of faith, endows one with

patriotism and brings a great peace

Clean patriotism bends its knee to God and loves all men. The squabbles and vices of the selfish and the weak melt away before the sunshine

of its glowing strength.

The Klan robe that is used for a

selfish purpose has no warmth in it

Judge Tiernan resents the idea

that a Roman Catholic must not be

come president of the United States. His resentment will not affect several million Protestant Americans and his Judicial opinions will doubt

less carry little weight henceforth.

Even a judge may not eternally stand against the wishes of the masses.

We owe much of the true Ameri

canism which has been and still is the spirit of our country today to

the Puritans. They were men ana

women of solid worth. Their achieve

ments were fundamentaland lasting.

To them is due much for the furtherance of the arts of civilization and the happiness of the race as we

know It. They were stern, prim, superstitious, and many other things that our liberalists look upon with scorn, but their principles were of a type to demand the "highest respect of those who understand the value of a deep moral sense in the heart of the common people. In Massachusetts the up-to-dates make fun of thetT Puritan lineage, but their merriment brings them little but honks of disgust from people

who an estimate values in life, an

cient and modern,

A booster has been defined by somebody as "one who does all the good he can, to all the people he can. every time be can, and trusts

the rest to God." In connection with

this, ft to well to remember the def

inition ot a knocker as a "thing that

hangs outside the door and has no

place la the boom." - -

Johnny Tells Secrets

My fo'kes has got th' jinein' bug. They're strong fer church an' lodge; You hear 'em talk frum dawn to dark Ov goats an' what they dodge; But lately they're mysteeryus In wot they do an' say. So I judge they got th' Big Idee Wot's hit Americay.

My pa, he is a Mason true.

With square an' letter "G".

My brother Pete, the oldest one,

He s quite a strong K. P.

My sister Sue's an Eastern Star,

A Becky s sister Nan,

But oncet she said straight out at

me, "I wisht I wuz a Klan."

My uncle Philip, he's a Moose,

He s got a pleasin face;

But Uncle Ike's a Red Man fierce-

He warwhoops ever' place.

And Uncle Joe's a York quite stern.

Though once I heard his Fan

Tell Bessie she's a D. of R.

"He's thinkin 'bout th' Klan."

for by James Walmy, exalted cyclops of the John B. Gordon Klan, No. 21 Realm of Florida. The letter is given here in full: "Mr. Warren A. Stone, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: "Dear Sir: "It has come to my attention through a perusal of the local daily papers that in the course of your addresses at the Central school auditorium yesterday afternoon and be

fore the American Legion last evening, you saw fit to attack what you allege to be the purposes and prin ciples of the Knights ot the Ku Klux

Klan. "If the purposes and principles of the Klan were along the lines alleged by you, your remarks would be entirely justified. However, your remarks as quoted in the newspapers, were aboslutely misleading and were a bald misrepresentation of the things which the Klan stands for, and I, as head of the Klan in this locality, can not let them pass unnoted and unchallenged. "Contrary to your statements, the

following are the cardinal principles

of the Klan: "The Ku Klux Kreed: We, the order of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan reverentially acknowledge the majesty and supremacy of the Divine Being, and recognize the goodness and providence of the same. We recognize our relation to the government of the United States of America, the supremacy of its constitu-

force the law. Second, it deters and

prevents many criminals from violating the law, because they fear some Klansman is looking and listening. Third, it minimizes the dangers of mob violence because no Klansman will participate in an unlawful mob, nor will he allow others to do so if he can prevent it. Fourth, every Klansman is obligated to report all law violations to the proper authorities and help to enforce the law, but the average citizen will not do this, unless called on by the grand jury. On this point I would like to add that I know of no secret or fraternal order that obli

gates and binds its members to such a policy of law-enforcement. "No community is entirely free from law violators and for this reason the existence of the Klan is universally justified. It fills a distinctive place and does a specific work everywhere. It puts the eyes and ears of the sheriff, grand jury and court in every part of the county, and woe be unto the crook and criminal. "In this respect we do not mean to stand on our front steps with a shotgun to kill the first brute that comes along to desecrate our homes or defile our women; nor do we mean to air our family scandals in public courts where the wrongs can not be righted and the culprit often goes free, but we aim to teach all Klans

men to have such high and holy regard for the sanctity of their homes and the sacredness of marriage re

lations, that they will neither violate

tion, the union of the United States Uheir own home ties, nor desecrate

My gran'pa he's aristocrat.

Fo'kes hangs upon his word.

I've heerd Pa whisper like in church,

'Son, he's a thirty-third."

But oncet when we wuz out to mill,

My gran'pa winked at Dan: It's purty good an' dark tonight, Le's go an' jine the Klan."

My fo'kes has got th jinein' bug

Most ev'ry night they're out.

A ridin' some odd kind o' goat

In lodges hereabout;

But my ma laughs an' sez, sez she:

"I wisht we wuz a man.

Fer If we wuz we'd go an jine

The fam-i-ous Ku Klux Klan.

thereunder, and the constitutional

laws thereof, and we shall be ever devoted to the sublime principles of a pure Americanism and valiant in the defense of its ideals and institutions. We avow' the distinction between the races of mankind as same has been decreed by the Creator, and shall ever be true in the faithful maintenance of white supremacy and will strenuously oppose any compromise thereof in any and all things. We appreciate the intrinsic value of a real practical fraternal relationship among men of

kindred thought, purpose and ideals and the infinite benefits accruable therefrom, and shall faithfully devote ourselves to the practice ot an honorable Klannishness that the life and living of each may be a constant blessing to others.' "The Spirit of Toleration Contrary to the charges made by our

enemies that the Klan cultivates racial hatred and fosters religious

prejudice, it is the very acme and

Wrist bags in dark red silk moire, for preference are effective with

navy suits. The wrist bags now shown here often have mountings of black enamel.

the homes of others, nor defile the purity of young womanhood, nor rob young girls of their priceless virtue.' "We mean to protect our homes by cultivating a holler reverence and a higher regard for the sacred relationship of the sexes, and protect our women by living clean, chaste, moral lives ourselves. This, and the influence of such men on outsiders, will save thousands of homes from ruin. "Every community needs this sublime influence of the Kian ; there-

lore the existence or the Klan is a universal need. "The Klan is made up of the highest type of citizens, leaders in their respective communities, from every trade and profession. "The Klan is not anti-anything; but is Pro-American and stands the staunch defender of American institutions against all their enemies whomsoever.

"It might be of interest to you to

personification of toleration and fair- j j3 that more fhan 50 Per ;ent ot

A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenetl

of the Christian religion and that a godless nation can not long prosper.

I believe that a church that u not

grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to God and to man.

I believe that a church that does

not have the welfare of the common

people at heart is unworthy.

I believe tn the eternal separation

of Church and State.

I hold no allegiance to ant foreign

government, emperor, king, pope or

any other joreign, political or religious power. I hold my allegiance to the Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. I believe in just lavas and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States. I believe that our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good government and that those who art seeking to destroy it are enemies of

our Republic and are unworthy of

citizenship. I believe in freedom of speech.

I believe in free press uncontrolled by political parties or by re

ligious sects. I believe in law and order.

I believe in the protection of our

pure womanhood.

1 do not believe in mob violence, but I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob

violence.

I believe in a closer relationship of

capital and labor. I believe in the prevention of nn-

warranted strikes by Joreign labor agitators. believe in the limitation of for

eign immigration.

I mm a native-born American cidten end I believe my rights in this country are superior to those of for

eigners.

ness. We teach that all men, irrespective of race, color, creed, line-1 age or tongue, have a perfect right j to exercise and enjoy the rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution of the United States, and we practice this doctrine in our dealings with others. The Klan never interferes with, interrupts, molests or disturbs anyone in these privileges. We will never interfere with anybody's religious, political or fraternal gatherings or parades, nor will we deny anyone the right of peaceable assembly in public buildings, the freedom of speech, the free

dom of the press or the freedom of

worship. We do not discriminate

against anyone on account of their

religious or political creed, so far as their rights as citizens are con

cerned. If the opponents of the Klan would practice the same spirit of toleration, there would never be any friction, ill-will, strife, or bitter feeling in any community. "Nearly every community needs a Klan to teach and exemplify the spirit ot toleration and to overcome the prejudice and unfairness of certain men.

"The Klan Is a loyal friend, fearless defender and staunch supporter of the American free public school. We seek to defend It against insidious attack of its enemies and to

make every possible improvement in the system that can be devised to make It more efficient. To this end we advocate: (1) A national department of education with a secretary in the cabinet. (2) A national compulsory public school attendance law for all

children, irrespective of race, color, or creed, until they have completed the 8th grade, including the study of English language. (3) A liberal federal' aid for public schools, based on the scholastic population ot each -state or the ef

ficiency of the schools. (4) More efficient and better paid teachers in our public schools. (5) A special course in 'all schools and colleges In the study of the Constitution of the United States, and of the state where such schools are located, to Include the duties of American citizenship. For. these reasons every community ought to be vitally Interested in having a Klan that these educational ideals may be realized.

the men composing your audiences

at the gatherings above referred to, are Klansmen who were well aware of the falsity of your statements and your remarks only caused among them a feeling of amazement and perhaps amusement at your lack of information concerning the subject you were attempting to discuss. "In the kindliest spirit, I assume that your remarks were made in ignorance rather than being prompted by a spirit of malicious mischief and I sincerely trust that you will thoroughly inform yourself regarding this great American movement before you again attempt to discuss it in public, at least."

The Attack on Mellon

(Dally Oklahoman) It Is probable that Secretary Mellon did not realize that he violated the law In accepting and retaining the position of head of the Treasury Department while he was financially interested in companies engaged in

trade and commerce, but ignorance

any more than it excuses the averaga -citizen. In pressing his attack against Mellon, Senator McKeilar calls attention to Section 243 of the revised statutes, which prohibits the secretary of the treasury "from engaging In trade and commerce while in office." Sec--retary Mellon recently admitted that he was interested in corporations which had been granted tax refunds. It Secretary Mellon is violating a law regulating the conduct of his office, if he is illegally holding office, be should be asked to resign. The law in question was enacted for the purpose of preventing a secretary ot the treasury from nsing his office for the purpose of promoting his

own financial interests. It is a statute that iB so clearly for the public welfare that there should be no question as to the duty of the president to enforce it.

SPANISH MOTHERS VOTE

MADRID. The military director recently published a decree giving municipal votes to women who are heads of families.. "Those of twentythree and over will be entitled to vote and they will also be eligible to stand" as candidates.